Labor Rights, Human Rights and a Critical Sociology of Law

Authors

Richard R. Weiner, Rhode Island CollegeFollow

Subtitle

Three Way Stretch

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Department (Manual Entry)

Political Science Department

Abstract

Arguing for a transnational labor movement increasingly poses transnational labor rights as transnational human rights. Sociologically, how can such transnational labor rights be secured by institutions at a global level? Moving from human rights to transnational social rights? A seemingly aporia between the concepts of labor rights and human rights can be dialectically mediated by the tradition of a critical sociology of law in yielding a critical sociology of rights.

Comments

Presented at The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at The Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (13 April 2012)

Source

Original Version:

Citation

Weiner, Richard R., "Labor Rights, Human Rights and a Critical Sociology of Law" (2012). Faculty Publications. 327.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/facultypublications/327